…going to be forced to wait a few more days to find out just who won! I’m kidding. I’m also a bit delirious from the staggering amount of reading I’ve done over the last week. It’s been tough. Hell, it’s been unbelievably tough. This contest yielded our greatest number of submissions by an absolute landslide. To be honest, we’ve never fielded remotely near as much work. The writers got busy for this one, no doubt about it.

It may have required countless hours to really dig into each and every entry, but it’s done… finally. I’ve got to say, I’m very pleased with the stories to hit my inbox. There were more than a fair number of duds, make no mistake (normalcy, as we’re not all stellar storytellers just yet), but the amount of enjoyable stories proved quite surprising. The talent level seems to rise with each release and…